Emily Hubley
For over 30 years, Emily Hubley has created short, hand-drawn animated films that explore personal memory and the turbulence of emotional life. The daughter of filmmakers Faith and John Hubley, she worked at The Hubley Studio in various capacities from 1977 to the present.
Ms. Hubley created the animation for John Cameron Mitchell’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch. With Jeremiah Dickey, she has provided segments to numerous documentaries including Blue Vinyl by Judith Helfand and this year’s William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe, directed by Emily and Sara Kunstler, and What’s On Your Plate?, directed by Catherine Gund. Ms. Hubley was a 2004 Annenberg Film Fellow. She workshopped her first feature film, The Toe Tactic, at the Sundance Institute’s Screenwriters’ and Filmmakers’ Labs.
Robert Todd
A lyrical filmmaker as well as a sound and visual artist, Robert Todd has been making short films since 1990. His collection of short films, shot in 16mm, demonstrate a masterful command of the medium, the strong influence of painting, musical forms and poetry, and an openness to chance. His visually stunning body of work, not easily defined or categorized, comes from a deeply personal place, which is quiet, thoughtful, and curious. The films take a variety of poetic approaches to looking at the personal, political, and social ways in which we choose to live.
His works have been exhibited internationally at a wide variety of venues and festivals including (in addition to the Ann Arbor Film Festival) the Media City Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Entre Vue - Belfort International Festival, Black Maria Film Festival, Nouveau Cinema in Montreal, Cinematheque Ontario, the Harvard Film Archive, Pacific Film Archive, the Paris Biennial, Slamdance Film Festival, and others. His films have won numerous festival prizes, grants, and artist’s awards. He currently teaches film production at Emerson College in Boston.
Betzy Bromberg
Betzy Bromberg, Director of the Program in Film and Video at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), has been making experimental films since 1976. Ms. Bromberg’s films have shown extensively in museums, cultural venues and festivals within the United States and abroad. Most notably, her work has been presented at the Museum of Modern Art (New York City), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the San Francisco Cinemateque, the Harvard Film Archives (Cambridge), Anthology Film Archives (New York City), the National Film Theater (London), The Vootrum Centrum (Belgium) and the Centre Georges Pompidou (France). Previous films have shown at the Rotterdam, London, Edinburgh, Sundance and Vancouver Film Festivals.
Ms. Bromberg has also had retrospectives of her films at Film Forum (Los Angeles) and the Cinema Project (Portland). Her most recent retrospective of her films was with the Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente. Previous to becoming the Director of the Program in Film and Video at California Institute of the Arts, Ms. Bromberg worked in the Hollywood special effects industry for many years as a supervisor and camerawoman for the production of optical effects in major motion pictures.